Where to get GCC

GCC can be downloaded from <http://gcc.gnu.org>; however, it comes as a package with all popular GNU Linux distributions, so if you are running GNU Linux then the chances are you'll already have (and be using) it. Distributions are available as tar balls in source or binary format - check the web-site for file sizes. If you are not sure that you have GCC or not, try

$ gcc --version

and you will either get a version number, for example:

     $ gcc --version
     3.0
     

or an error message:

$ bash: gcc: command not found